- Source: 2014 Arkansas Attorney General election
The 2014 Arkansas Attorney General election was held on November 6, 2018, to elect the attorney general of Arkansas.
Republican nominee Leslie Rutledge was elected to the office, the first woman elected to the office and the first Republican to be elected to the office since 1874 (during the reconstruction period).
Incumbent Democratic Attorney General Dustin McDaniel was term-limited and could not run for re-election to a third term in office.
Democratic primary
State Representative Nate Steel ran for the Democrats. Attorney Zac White, who had considered running, endorsed Steel and instead ran for the State Senate.
Republican primary
Three attorneys sought the Republican nomination: Patricia Nation, Leslie Rutledge and David Sterling. State Representative Matthew Shepherd, Faulkner County prosecutor J. Cody Hiland and Marvin Childers, a former state representative and president of the lobbying group The Poultry Federation, had considered running, but decided against it.
Since no candidate won a majority, Rutledge and Sterling contested a runoff, which was characterised as a "full-fledged street brawl." Outside groups spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on attack ads and both candidates "question[ed] each others' conservative credentials and political experience." Nation endorsed Rutledge, who handily defeated Sterling.
Libertarian Aaron Cash is also running.
General election
In September 2014, Pulaski County Clerk Larry Crane cancelled Rutledge's voter registration after it was revealed that she was registered to vote in several other states. Rutledge, who has an Arkansas voter registration card, had cancelled her Pulaski County voter registration in July 2008 and registered to vote in Washington, D.C., instead. However, she did not vote in any elections in D.C., instead voting via absentee ballot in the 2008 general election in Pulaski County. She then registered to vote in Virginia in September 2010. If she remains unregistered, she would be ineligible to serve as Attorney General as the Arkansas Constitution states "No persons shall be elected to, or appointed to fill a vacancy in, any office who does not possess the qualifications of an elector." Rutledge denounced Crane for using "partisan politics to disenfranchise a voter in an attempt to hijack an election." Crane responded that he "did what the law requires" and invited Rutledge to re-register.
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